Pom Michael

Yes - but must have a tax invoice (in your name) from the hotel. Airline ticket receipts (again tax invoice in your name) also usable. Page 15 here. https://www.pwc.com/...-booklet-en.pdf Also - thanks for that link - that is a great calculator.

It is that time of year (again) - and has been a few years since we have had a Thai Income Tax (personal income taxes) thread. There have been a few changes this year. The 15K total deduction for domestic tourism is still in effect, and just recently the government announced an additional end of year spending deduction for qualified purchases - also of 15K. The news for this latest promotion came very late (25th December) and the info from the newspaper suggested that these two deductions were exclusive of each other. I went to the local revenue office (Times Square for me) - and the very helpful staff informed that you could claim both deductions - so not sure who to believe.

Damn - she got old quick! When she made the scene - how long ago - maybe 7 or 8 years - she was nice.

He was just making a joke. Did you not understand .... "without POSTING on Thai 360 website" ?

I had to look up what a Mumu was! The muumuu /ˈmuËmuË/ or muÊ»umuÊ»u (Hawaiian pronunciation: [ˈmuÊ”uˈmuÊ”u]) is a loose dress of Hawaiian origin[1] that hangs from the shoulder. Like the Aloha shirt, muumuu exports are often brilliantly colored with floral patterns of generic Polynesian motifs. Muumuu for local Hawaiian residents are more subdued in tone. Muumuu are no longer as widely worn at work as the aloha shirt, but continue to be the preferred formal dress for weddings and festivals such as the Merrie Monarch hula competition. They are also frequently worn as a uniform by women working in the hotel industry[citation needed]. Muumuu are also popular as maternity wear because they do not restrict the waist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muumuu Now, the girl in the bunny ears! I *hope* she is a girl - wow - stunning!

Have enough problems keeping up with my extended family - so don't have any anecdotal evidence of others....

As a non Facebook user, I did not get the ones with the F logo!

Ok, seems you already know the story? First, she/we still have the car. She did spend the rebate ($100k). Did not have to change her name, nor move – but the rest you got spot on. A year ago we (wife and I) had to step in and bail her out. It had finally gotten out of hand and the number of letters and calls coming to the house were getting out of control. Plus the wife was the guarantee on the car loan, so wife was on the hook also. Both of them were constantly fighting about it and the in-law was not a happy camper with her life. The actual car loan is about 12K baht per month. She could not drive anyways (although did go to driving school and got her license after she bought the car), so the car was being used by an ex-boyfriend. Which meant she did not have any operating expenses for the car, but was responsible for paying the monthly loan. She works, makes about 25K per month, no appreciable expenses (no rent, food at home, electricity, internet all provided). What she was doing was getting advances on a variety of credit cards – in the end she owed 257K – with the monthly minimum amounts higher than what she could service – plus not being able to pay the car loan, nor have any money for herself. I would say that she was getting in debt an additional 12K every month. Wife paid off all the credit cards in Jan 2015. {Actually first thing wife did was to go herself and get the car back.} Since then she pays back about 16K-17K per month. She transfers 20K per month every payday, and then over the course of the month will ask for a few thousand for her expenses. Her life is much better now, family life has improved and in-law is able to even send money upcountry to mom every once in a while. For year 2016 – she will pay only 10K per month and finish off my loan later in the year. Now, the issue that was not completely settled in the beginning – we really had no need for another car – so I have been servicing the loan, paying for insurance, maintenance and operating expenses for the car since Jan 2015. Wife has driven the car about 50% of the time (splitting between her own car and this one depending on the situation). The loan has another 20 months left, and the car cannot be sold until 5 years (although there was recent talk about allowing these rebate cars to be sold after 3 years). So the real issue of who “owns†the car at the end when there should be about 160K of value left on it – that has yet to be resolved!

Not sure what you mean actually.

Overseas Thai Embassies would be were to go - local inside Thailand immigration offices would not issue these. Or did this never get implemented?

Why did they not get the cash rebate? Must have been their fault, as the rebate program gave out to everyone who was eligible (AFAIK) - my in-law (who cannot drive, no license even) bought a car and got the rebate after one year.

I'm not sure how much longer the V8 Diner/Insanity has their lease on the building - but looks for sure like a smaller footprint on that corner than would fit a full size hotel. (Corner of Soi 12 / Sukhumvit)

I would say many more than a handful. Unless you mean only those who fought in Korea/Vietnam as "U.S. Vets".

So back in town so soon - how long you planning to be around?

There is a large fairly Japanese-centric industrial zone located there - so a pretty decent size expat community (that mostly lives up towards Chiang Mai). Northern Region Industrial Estate Lamphun

Yes, Buddhist holiday tomorrow - but not a public holiday.

Still in town?

Been there for 10 years. I thought they were brought there to be a theme restaurant that never got going.

Time for a look back at Bangkok in the year 2005?

How time flies. The "final" verdict is now expected to be read in October! {Have to update a few of the old posts}

How time flies. The "final" verdict is now expected to be read in October! {Have to update a few of the old posts}

How time flies. The "final" verdict is now expected to be read in October!

The place has started to do a more aggressive marketing - I noticed two ladies at the end of the street handing out flyers recently. And looks like they opened up a Karaoke type place of some sort.

Open? Anyone been yet? Hooters of Bangkok, located at the Four Points by Sheraton on Sukhumvit, Soi 15, will welcome guests to its 220 seat restaurant with the 290 square foot space in the heart of the bustling Sukhumvit district. There will be 25 beautiful Hooters Girls to serve the famous wings into the early hours every night in this cosmopolitan city. http://news.hooters....-openings-annou {Some of the stuff them mention in here ..... A rapid light rail system between Bangkok and Pattaya will make it hassle-free for locals and tourists to travel between cities in little more than a half hour, having a tremendous effect on the growth of both already popular cities. }}}}

Are they closing the El Gaucho Soi 19 branch, or just under renovation right now (Aug 2015)?